According to biblical scholar Jim West, BAR is overly critical of the minimalist school of biblical scholarship, and he criticizes their sale of antiquities on their website. On the other hand, West also notes that BAR does a successful job of connecting the academic study of archaeology with a general audience noting that the contributors to their publications often include well-known and credible scholars in the fields they describe, such as David Ussishkin, Ronald Hendel, Kenneth Kitchen, and others, as well as providing great illustrations for the archaeological artifacts and sites they report on.[2]